Word: transom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claim to realism, either. His real-life counterparts work out of the country's 5,000 agencies (and earn a collective income of about $250 million a year), not out of swank bars and seedy clip joints. They spend more time at plant protection or gathering over-the-transom divorce evidence than avenging mink-clad corpses. TV Eyes, says San Francisco's crew-cut professional Eye, Hal Lipsett, are altogether too tough. They ignore the real Eye's tricky devices and subtle techniques-the telephone tap, the hidden recorder, the infrared camera, the fishhook microphone (which...
...towline, whereupon the stalled skipper triumphantly tied it around his waist and hollered "Let's go!" One of the classic invitations to trouble comes for the outboard owner when the engine quits. The owner lunges to the stern to fix it. His added weight brings the transom, already too low in the water, lower still. A five-gallon wave (roughly 50 lbs.) slops aboard. The next wave comes in easier, and the boat swamps...
Crook, Line & Sinker. In Sacramento, Calif., while Joe Borrego slept soundly in his hotel room, a thief using a bamboo pole with an attached hook fished through the transom, caught Borrego's trousers, portable radio, wristwatch, and wallet containing...
...Doesn't Pick . . ." Waiting at the inn were his campaign manager, Jim Finnegan (see box), and his old political sponsor, Chicago's Jacob Arvey. Their private discussion of the pros and cons of Adlai's open-race plan floated over an open transom...
...coloration of the magazines, with their fiction, features, crossword puzzles, panels, columnists, comics and other entertainments . . . Newspapers, many of them built to greatness on the tradition of fearless reporting, are only going through the motions of covering beats or waiting for the news releases to be thrown through the transom . . . It's much easier to hire wire services than to gather, write and print local news . . . You don't get into arguments with your readers over...